So Let the Fireworks Come
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can’t be untold.
All posts by DeLanna Studi
An Excerpt From ‘Antíkoni’
This adaptation of Sophocles’s ‘Antigone’ centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family tearing itself apart over the fate of ancestral remains.
An Excerpt From ‘Yuchewahkénh (Bitter)’
Vickie Ramirez’s play explores the erasure of Indigenous women, and what it takes to claim your voice and your culture.
That Banyan Tree
This creative work from Lee Cataluna explores what Maui means to the world in the wake of the Lahaina fires.
José Rivera: Mystery, Awe, and the Long Apprenticeship
This month Brian talks to the prolific playwright and screenwriter about religion, working-class heroes, and how he learned he’s not an actor from Tom Hanks.
Adventures With the Audience at CATF
A report from Shepherdstown, where it’s all new all the time. Plus: thoughts on the Oskar Eustis bombshell and what it says about our role in the movement.
Leadership Changes at The Public, Juilliard, Childsplay, and More
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective Unveils Inaugural Cohort
A collaboration between the Cherry Lane Theatre and Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker, the collective offers six writers a nine-month fellowship culminating in a series of readings.
Does ‘Rhinoceros’ Still Have Its Charge?
Diane Paulus’s new staging at American Repertory Theater—starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany—promises a non-literal approach to Ionesco’s allegory about fascism.
The Quotable Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Now Onstage In Little Rock
Arkansas Rep artistic director Steve H. Broadnax III has written a new show about a local hero who went from a sharecropper’s farm to the heights of state and federal government.
